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Chapter 17

Wendy floated down to the ground and wobbly walked over to Erigor and picked up the flute. She heard Erza call out from behind her, "Wendy!" She turned around to see Erza, Gray, and Lucy pull up in a Magic Four Wheeler. Erza asked, "Are you alright?"

Wendy smiled weakly, "Yeah! We got Lullaby. You guys are late."

Carla quickly began to scold Wendy, "You could have died. I told you not to use Storm Dragon Mode carelessly because your magic power is increasing faster than your magic container can grow, so you use too much magic!"

Wendy smiled, "Sorry Carla." Carla pouted. She knew she wasn't gonna get anything better from Wendy.

Erza said, "Well done! Now that we have Lullaby the guild masters are safe." Erza took Lullaby from Wendy and put it in the driver's seat of the Magic Four wheeler.

Kageyama stared at Erigor who on the ground, "You… You… You defeated Erigor?!"

Gray patted Wendy on the back, "You did well, but you should be more careful. With such a desperate win, it could have been a disaster. You should be cautious, because I'm sure Romeo would be sad if you got injured."

Wendy's face turned as red as a tomato as she yelled at Gray, "It's not like that!" Gray laughed as he looked at her flustered expression.

Erza said, "Enough you guys. Now that we have Lullaby, the Guild Masters are safe." She then looked down the railroad, or at least what was left of it, "We may as well go visit them at the Regular Meeting given how close we are to Clover Town. We do have to make a long report to master about what happened after all." Erza looked at Wendy and Gray who shivered as they realized how much trouble they would be in for destroying a railroad and a train car.

The Fairy Tail mages suddenly heard the laughing voice of Kageyama as they heard the engine of the Magic Four Wheeler, "The Flute… The Lullaby is in my hands! Serves you right for being too careless! You are too kind!" Kageyama blasted away with the Magic Four Wheeler, using the remaining magic Erza had left in it.

Gray glared at him, "That bastard! Even after we saved him from his own guild, and he's still willing to help them!"

Erza said, "We have to go after him! If we don't catch him it could mean the death of the Guild Masters!"

Back at Oshibana Station…

A platoon of rune knights appeared quickly outside of the station following the defeat of Eisenwald, all armed with magic weapons and magic armor along with multiple pairs of magic hand-cuffs. Doranbolt stood in front of them. He has an average build with short, spiky black hair. The left hand side of his head in covered in multiple overlapping scars, tracing down the left side of his face. He had pale blue eyes and wears a serious expression. His attire consists of a dark blue jacket, with light-colored edges and a pair of bands on each sleeve, worn over a lighter blue shirt bearing the ankh-like symbol normally embroidered on the Rune Knight's uniform. He wears mildly loose pants held up by a simple brown belt, along with similarly colored blue gloves and shoes. Lastly, he wears a white cape held in place by a gold buckle adorned by a round blue gem.

Doranbolt pointed his finger towards the building, "Although Fairy Tail has presumably already taken care of the Eisenwald Dark Guild, we have to be prepared for everything. Advance with caution." Doranbolt quickly lead the army of Rune Knights into Oshibana station. Doranbolt smiled as he looked at all of the Eisenwald Guild members already tied up in ice chains and thought, 'You sure did a good job Fairy Tail. I should report to Makarov as soon as possible.'

One of the Rune Knight commanders yelled out, "Quickly now! Put on the Anti-Magic cuffs. We need to get this job done quickly. We don't know if any of them got away, and we need to proceed quickly!"

The Rune Knight collectively soon felt a massive wave of magic power from the entrance to the train station almost pushing them to their knees. They slowly turned around to see what they could only describe as a demon. Natsu stood at the entrance of the train station as a wall of crystal clear ice covered the entrance. Natsu stood there with his one eye glowing orange (His eye changes color based on the type of magic he is using) and with his hood down revealing his 4 red and black horns on the sides of his head.

Natsu made a sneer revealing his sharp fangs as he looked at them and said darkly, "I wouldn't be so worried about missing Eisenwald guild members…" Natsu slowly transformed his hands into massive red and black segmented claws and black and red rock-like markings spread up his arms. Nastu looked up at them with a menacing aura, "...BECAUSE NONE OF YOU WILL BE LEAVING HERE ALIVE!"

The only thing that could be heard by the crowd of people from inside of the train station was the cries of help and agony from the Rune Knights, and the occasional splatter of blood on the crystal clear ice wall.

In Clover, now night time…

Kageyama panted heavily, having used the rest of his magic to get the Magic Four Wheeler to Clover Town. As he looked up through a window at the Guild Masters he thought, 'Good, the Regular meeting isn't over yet. Lullaby's melody should be heard from here.'

He suddenly felt a finger on his cheek as he turned around to seek Makarov sitting on a bench outside of the meeting hall laughing. "You should really get to a hospital young man. I wouldn't be walking around if I were you with those kinds of injuries." Makarov thought to himself as he put away a magazine, 'I almost got caught reading that.' He hopped down off of the bench and began to walk back to the meeting hall.

Kageyama turned towards Makarov and said nervously to try and entice Makarov, "Er… Um… Will you listen to one song. I haven't been able to go anywhere because no one likes to hear my music." He then smiled innocently, "But I want someone to hear my music." Kageyama pulled out Lullaby.

Makarov sat down on a rock and said, "That's a pretty creepy flute you got there."

Kageyama responded, "I know, that's why no one wants to hear it, but it does sound beautiful."

Makarov closed his eyes and sighed, "Alright, one song shouldn't hurt. Then I have to get back to the meeting."

Kageyama smirked and said, "Thank you!" He thought to himself, 'I win! You flies will pay for ever challenging Eisenwald!" He thought about all the lectures he had been given by Erigor about how bad the light guilds are and that made him feel a sense of accomplishment, but then he began to reflect. How much had Fairy Tail really helped him? He would be dead right now if it wasn't for them, and they were even willing to give him a second chance. Kageyama grit his teeth as he held the flute millimeters away from his mouth.

Erza, Wendy, Gray, Lucy, and Carla all showed up at the same time. They saw Makarov and panicked and began to run forward before Bob, the Guild Master of Blue Pegasus put an arm out in front of them stopping them. Bob put a finger to his mouth signalling for them to be quiet and said, "Shh! This is the best part."

Makarov said, "Hurry up already. I've got places to be."

Erza saw Kageyama about to play and yelled out to help him but they heard Ur's voice beside them, "You should wait. This is one thing that is truly amazing about Master." Gray looked over at her in surprise. Ur smiled, "Relax. I heard that there was something to do with a major dark guild and wanted to make sure nothing bad happened at the regular meeting. Relax."

Kageyama shivered as he held the Flute. Makarov looked at him sternly, "Now. Nothing will change." Kageyama froze. The tone Makarov was using was almost… sympathetic. "Weaklings will stay weak, but weakness is not evil." makarov looked up at him with a slight smile, "If we try and hide from our fears we will never overcome them. That is why we form guilds. That is why we have nakama. We walk together to become stronger." Makarov thought about everyone he had ever met and how they were all so similar. Maybe Kgeyama would understand. "The Clumsy ones will fall and take longer to get there, but we will always help them back up. If you believe in tomorrow and work hard, you will get stronger naturally. That's how you will learn to smile and live strong." Makarov smirked, "Without that stupid flute, of course."

Kageyama's hands shook before he dropped the flute to the ground. He fell to his knees in front of Makarov, "I'm sorry. I admit… I lost."

As soon as he said that the Fairy Tail mages emerged. Erza quickly wrapped Makarov in a crushing hug, "Your words deeply touched my heart!"

Makarov looked at them and asked, "Why did you three come here?"

Wendy said happily, "We came to stop Kageyama from using Lullaby to kill the guild masters, but it seems it is already taken care of!"

Lucy walked over to Kageyama and kneeled down, "You know, I didn't expect you to change. Com now, let's go see a doctor." Kageyama pushed himself to a sitting position as he looked around at the Fairy Tail mages, a small smile pulling at the edges of his lips.

They suddenly felt a wave of dark magic fill the area. All of the wizards turned towards the source of the magic to see none other than Lullaby. The wooden flute floated in the air as its three eye sockets glowed purple and dark blue and purple smoke flowed off of it. They heard a menacing laugh from the flute as it said, "You mages have no guts! If you refuse to do it… I'LL JUST DEVOUR YOU MYSELF!"

Lullaby created a massive purple magic circle in the sky and dark blue and purple smoke swirled together as a massive beast megan to emerge. It could have easily been 20 times as tall as the meeting hall. Lullaby now was a giant creature made of wood, with massive 3-clawed feet. He had long sharp fingers on his massive hands that swirled with dark energy. His head has 3 glowing purple eyes and two massive horns sticking out of the top of it. His body appears to be made out of wooden roots, spiraling together with a few large gaps in between them, the most noticeable being 3 that were located on his abdomen. He had multiple wooden spikes coming out of his back, and a series of segmented wooden plates surrounding his neck. The Fairy Tail mages could feel the aura of death flowing off of him and were almost suffocating.

Kageyama asked as he looked up at Lullaby, "W-What is this?! Erigor never said anything about something like this!"

Ur looked up at it, "It's a devil from the book of Zeref!"

Lucy asked as she shivered in fear, "But… But how could a demon come out of a flute!?"

Ur continued, "That demon is the Lullaby itself. It is living magic, Zeref's specialty."

Gray looked at her, "Zeref?! But isn't he just some wizard from Ancient times?!"

Erza froze as she remembered who Zeref was. She thought, 'No… No… No, No No! Why did it have to be him?!' She looked up at Lullaby. She thought, 'If I can kill the Lullaby, I will be one step closer to saving Jell-.' She however was interrupted from her thoughts when she heard the menacing laugh from Lullaby.

"The dark wizard Zeref. The most atrocious wizard in the history of magic. I never imagined that his horrible legacy several hundred years later would appear…" Said Bob as he looked up at Lullaby worriedly.

Unbeknownst to them, Natsu sat perched in a tall tree and listened to their conversation and thought agrilly, 'If they knew Zeref… They would know just how kind he really was!" He looked at the small locket that he kept around his neck that was identical to the one that Zeref had of him.

Lullaby laughed, "Now… Let me consume your pitiful souls!" The Fairy Tail mages looked up at it with concentration. Lullaby grinned evilly, "Now, whos soul should I devour first? I know… ALL OF YOURS!" Lullaby shot a blast of his magic outwards, hurting the wizards ears.

Erza yelled, "We have to finish this now before he can play the Lullaby!" Wendy gathered lightning around herself as Gray gathered magic into the palm of his hand for long range and defensive use.

Wendy and Erza lunged forwards. Erza ex-quiped into her Heaven's Wheel Armor. She dashed forwards a quickly sliced Lullaby all over her body. Wendy jumped upwards as she send blasts of lighting and blades of water at Lullaby in an attempt to either burn him up or to cut him to pieces.

Lullaby glared at Wendy and Erza, "Impudent humans!" He swung one of his arms down onto Erza. As Erza dodged in mid air he swung his other arm into her side, slicing through her armor with his sharp claws and sending her straight into the ground. Lullaby laughed, "I was hoping for a better fight from you humans, but you're severely disappointing!" Lullaby shot countless blasts of magic at Wendy, some of which Gray managed to block, the others making head on direct contact.

Wendy landed on the ground next to Erza and panted heavily. Wendy said to Gray, "I don't think we can win this one. He's too strong."

Lullaby charged up a massive blast of green energy in his mouth before firing it at Wendy, Gray, and Erza. They heard from Ur from behind them, "Ice Make: Nullification Dome!" A perfect dome made of ice appeared around them. Lullaby's blast of magic made contact with the dome. Ur grit her teeth as she put more power into the dome to maintain it as she thought, 'This dome should be able to nullify any magic that gets thrown at it! Why isn't it working?!' Cracks started to appear all throughout the dome before it shattered

Makarov looked at it as he started to activate his magic but before he could do anything, Lullaby's attack had been deflected away and into a mountain, raising it to the ground. Wendy, Gray, Erza, and Ur looked up to see a tall and broad silhouette standing in front of them. Part of his forearm and his hand had been turned into crystals, which extended outwards into a large blue, green, and purple shield (Iron Dragon Slayer magic and Crystal Dragon Slayer magic function in the same way). Wendy heard him say in a snarky tone, "You know, you should be more careful."

Wendy could instantly recognise the magic anywhere. Wendy was about to say something before she passed out from exhaustion. As the figure turned around it revealed a head of pink hair with a glowing purple eye. Gray and Erza could see the silhouette of his horns in the night sky from the moonlight as they looked at him in awe. Natsu turned to Ur and put a hand under her chin as he leaned his face close to hers, "You shouldn't strain yourself too much. I hope you remember me." Ur's eyes widened as she remembered his voice from 10 years ago.

Flashback to x774…

Gray stood in what could only be described as a wasteland. All of the countless buildings had been reduced to nothing but rubble. Gray brick and pieces of wood were strewn around the ground, covered in fire which was strange given that it was winter. The only sounds that could be heard was the howling of wind uninhibited by any buildings. The roars of a demon echoed in the background.

Gray held one of Lyon's arms over his shoulder as he looked up at Ur with tears in his eyes, "I can't leave you!"

Ur turned away from Gray to face deliora, "No. You must leave. I'll defeat that thing."

"N-No! I can't leave you! All of this is my fault! If I hadn't-" Gray started to speak but was interrupted.

Ur said, "No. This is no ones fault. It is an ordeal so that we can take back our happiness. Gray stared up at her as she looked at deliora with determination, "Gray. You need to go." Ur quickly pressed the base of her fist into her palm and chanted, "Ice Make: Rose Garden!" A vine ro roses sprung forwards from a blue magic circle, encircling Deliora and digging into his skin.

Deliora is a massive, humanoid Demon, easily standing as tall as a 5 story building. He has a large muscular blue torso with massive arms that end in scaly hands with his finger pointed with claws. On his torso as well as around his neck, Deliora is covered with a series of long maroon spikes. In addition, he has two large legs that have a joint backwards looking like the same of a wolf's, whereas the feet resemble those of a bird. He has an additional row spikes running down his spine. His purple hair flows down the back of his neck and slightly onto his upper back in a mane-like shape. He has a large pair of horns that point upwards, jutting outwards from his forehead. He also has large pointed teeth as well as two hollow eyes that glow green when he attacks.

Deliora roared in pain as he turned towards Ur. He opened his mouth and quickly channelled a ball of green energy into it. He blasted a beam of green energy forwards across the ground, leaving a trail of massive explosions that Ur barely managed to dodge. How leg however got caught in the explosion, vaporizing it. She rolled to a stop and materialized a leg made out of ice in the place of her missing leg. Ur managed to push herself to her feet as she looked up at Deliora's massive form above her. She placed the base of her fist into her palm and yelled, "Ice Make: Volcano!" A massive blast of ice shot up below Deliora.

Deliora roared before bringing down one of his massive clawed hands onto the ground, sending out a shockwave upon impact. Ur materialized a massive ice shield which shattered from the force of the impact.

She looked up at him as she jumped backwards. Ur thought to herself, 'If I don't stop him now who knows how many more people could die, including Gray, Lyon, and I.' Ur crossed her arms in an X-shape in front of her as she began to release massive amounts of magic power. Ur prepared to cast the ultimate spell, one that consumed her spirit and physical body to create a virtually indestructible prison of Ice.

However, before she had a chance to cast the spell, a massive beam of fire aimed straight for Deliora's head vaporized him in an instant. A tall man walked past her as he stood in front of Deliora's headless body which fell lifelessly to the ground. What she could see from his body was a head of spiky pink hair and four horns on either side of his head. Ur looked at his hands and saw that they were massive red and black segmented claws with strange rock-like markings running up his forearms colored red and black.

Natsu looked at Deliora's corpse and said, "You know, that was seriously disappointing. I was really expecting more out of a demon that had caused so much damage."

Ur looked at him in shock. For a demon that had almost killed her, someone that could be considered equal to a wizard saint, and that demon had been killed with one attack which she could feel he had put no power into. She asked shakily, "W-who are you?"

Natsu looked down at her. She could now finally see his menacing appearance, but was quickly diffused with his kind smiled, "I'm Natsu."

Flashback end…

The guild masters stared in shock as they looked at Natsu easily blocking an attack from Lullaby. Lullaby asked in an arrogant tone, "Who might you be? You seem more formidable than the other humans."

Natsu smirked as the color of his eye changed from purple to orange, "Maybe this will jog your memory." Natsu slowly transformed his hands into massive red and black segmented claws and black and red rock-like markings spread up his arms. Natsu coated his claws in fire and looked up at Lullaby.

Lullaby took one step backwards away from Natsu as his expression changed from arrogance to fear. Lullaby stuttered, "You're… You're King E.N-"

Natsu laughed as he said, "You'll regret it if you say that name." Natsu began to generate a petrifying aura as he released all of his magic power. It felt almost suffocating to be in his presence. Natsu raised one claw as he said, "You will regret the day that you were ever created. I always like to be with my own kind, but you are disappointing." Natsu closed his clawed hand and a massive pillar of fire shot out of the ground, illuminating the night sky. The guild masters stared in shock at the display of power they had never seen anything like it before.

Makarov looked at Natsu in shock as he felt his magic power and thought, 'More… More than Got Serena?!' He was one of the few people that had met the number one wizard saint, but feeling the magic in front of him… It far surpassed God Serena. To him, it felt immeasurable. Infinite.

Hey guys! Look at that, I got chapter 17 out in 2 days. I had tons of ideas for this chapter and I would say that it was a blast to write. I made Natsu's ice clear, which most people seemed to like the idea of, as well as I had him kill the Rune Knights. For the record, Mest got away from Natsu, so he is still alive. I will probably not get the next chapter out for a while because it is going to be difficult to write the Phantom Lord arc, which is also going to be long. I have plenty of amazing ideas for it, and it should be really fun for you guys to read. I hope that you guys like how I'm writing so far. It is very difficult to write the Wendy that was originally in Fairy Tail, but now have her be confident. I hope you guys enjoy, now onto the questions!

Questions

1. I am planning of having Gajeel as strong a Gildarts as you guys know, but how should I have him interact in the Phantom Lord arc. It is said that Gildarts could be a wizard saint, and that means that Gajeel is really strong. What should I have him do for the majority of the arc until he fights Laxus and Erza because he is so OP?

2. Should I try and skip the Tower of Heaven Arc and maybe put Jellal in the Tenrou Island arc? I would probably make it so that Ultear told Jellal that Zeref had been alive the whole time and then he would go with Grimoire Heart to Tenrou Island.

3. Should Gajeel know dragon force?

Thanks Guys! I'll see you next time!